Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-07-09
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BILL RYE's SPEECH.
He Delivers Characteristic and
Patriotic Address.


He Delivers Characteristic and
Patriotic Address.
Fellow Citizens; 1t has now been one
hundred and eleven years since the most
successful and most prosperous republic
known thus far to history, sent forth
upon the sultry air it's first feeble cry,
One hundred and eleven years ago this
morning, the small red infant known as
American liberty iammed her purple
fists in to her watery eyes and made
few desultory remarks which were heard
in the utternost parts of the earth.
To-day she is full grown person
w;th dignihed mien, and has had o
statue of herself taken, which stands in
the harbor OF New York and although
she lights up the country for miles
around, with her tall torch, there is no
one who has ever been able to hold
candle to her in the liberty business.
Those who are to-day within the
sound of my voice, and who are over
one hundred and eleven years of age,
will recall to their minds the depiorable
condition OF things here in our young and
struggling country at that time.
LII we moved out west in order to Sc
cure more freedom, the venturesome
savage filled us full of arrows till we
looked like toothpick holders, and when
we came back for protection, the
naughty Briton assessed us and crushed
us beneath the iron heel of deBpotism.
Now, wherever the starry banner
hangs out to greet the gentle breeze, all,
all are free. Little do we know to-day,
here in America, what it is to euffer for
freedom. Liberty does good business
here in the United States now, and the
man who runs out of freedom shows
| that he is shittless man and poor
| provider,
| Only little over century ago we
dared not go out after dark without a
chilled steel corset, for fear that the ma
room colored children of the forest might
let the pale, shimmering moonlight ID
among our vital organs by means of
their crude tomahawks. Then life was
Indeed uncertain and disBgreeable.
4 .lPeople remained ut home rather than
return to their houses with holes il
themselves and wildly dIsheveled brains
Now man can start and 60 anywhere
, If he will pay his fare.
And 80 we are marching on. What |
grand ssside it is from the despotism 0
a century ago, to the long and shor
haul OF to-day. What mighty LEAP
8 from the barbarism of @ hundred year
, ago, to the glorious sunlight OF freedom
, which we enjoy nowl
Where once the slow going OK team
and Belcher box wagon crept through
9 the wilderness, liable to be scattered
o over the greensward at any moment b.
, the yelling Iniun, now the patient news
paper man, the member of congress an,
the associate justice of the suprem
L court, With their coats over their arms
!, toll elong the level sweep Of railroad
), which they assisted to build by mean
couragement, looking ever and anon owe
b the shoulders for the approach Of th
Y yelling modern Ipiun.
Times have indeed changed in tn
past century. A hundred years ag
whisky was sold al forty cents per GO
Ion, aad every other man you met was
O statesman. Now you have to pay iiteel
!. cents for enough WHISKY to wet tn
. bottom of small tumbler, and ther
y hasn't been speech made in the hous
d of representatives for three years the
8, was hsteDeed to by anybody but th
II stenoRrapher.
So liberty, while enlarging her tielt
y has not always ameliorated the cond
: tion of mankind, We are prone to boas
al over the enormous mass of freedol
~ which we have accumulated here
:, America. and yet the freedom of I'll
= press has been greatly impaired, If me
% be allowed thet expression.
ID Too much caste has been the result
+. recent laws. A year ago held up n
/. head end mingled with q class Of me
- who to-day refuse to recognize mt
~ They were then, and are now, OF cours
n- men of wealth and social position; b'
as SO am /,
II sllude to the railway conductors
= the United States.
20 a year ago ! knew them from Ne
I'd York to San Francisco, and asseeiat.
if with them frequently, allowing myst
lv to be drawn forward into the smokir
- car to m:ngle with them and visit p
40 and con.
"a But what do find to-day? / fl
o. the same men running on the SAL
ha trains, but they are arrogant, hRugh
H. and reserved. One of them placed l
:! on a sIde-track last spring IN the nigf
5s in the midst OF pitiless storm, becsu
,at / tried to renew @ former acquaintan
ae with him, and ride into Chicago.
He said that could not ride on I
acquaintance with him by no means, b
IN that would soon be riding on the sm
of OF my back if I did not pay my fare
the city.
\ 4 4 -
thhee Apd 30 remained that night in
10 midst Of some ancient ruins called Mo
"a, mouth. was not acquainted In Mt
~. nn mouth. and had no business the
o y, Nobody ever had any business there Il
u I ever heard Of, aud yet remain
there through what was left OF q
sss terrible night.
ed often think that our forefathers {
is not uuffer any more hardsbips than
do, and If had fitted myself for
would Just as soon be q forefather Of
the be the pampered child OF wealth tbs
2 q am to-day. BILL N.Y.
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